First sentence: Here come the birds! Half on the left side, and half on the right. This is how the birds balance!
Premise/plot: Susie Ghahremani is the author of Stack the Cats which I reviewed last year. Like Stack the Cats, Balance the Birds is a math-related concept book for young readers. The concept being taught is weight, size, and logic.
My thoughts: I liked Stack the Cats well enough. It may be about math, but it was also about cats.
I didn't dislike Balance the Birds. I think that's important to point out. I just didn't love it.
The illustrations are super-bold and colorful. Perhaps a little too colorful for my poor eyes. I think I would have liked this one a little more if the background(s) were different. If they were a shade of sky--white, gray, blue--for example. Instead of sky, we have bright red, bright yellow, light turquoise, dark turquoise.
I did like how the tree is a scale--readers can tell if the birds are balanced by paying attention to the tree.
Text: 3 out of 5
Illustrations: 3 out of 5
Total: 6 out of 10
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